I had originally planned to get 3570K after selling my 2500K. Changed my mind.

Now I need a quad core with a bang for buck but not 3570K because I will be wasting money on it. No!, no 3570 either.

As you can see my build, it's proper bang for buck (for me at least) and consumes less power too, which means I am happy.

Now I can go with a Core i3 3rd Gen but I want power too and that i3 would most probably bottleneck the overall power of the PC.

So, which quad core should I aim for which will not bottleneck anything and would not be killed by games like Metro Last Light and Crysis 3?. I dont care if it's 2.5GHz, it has to provide 50+FPS keeping the limitation of GPU aside (or lets presume that a 680 is installed).

It also depends quite a bit on local pricing. Worth considering is that if you overclock the 3570K it is easily a 4Ghz processor, and if you compare with a *mere* 3.1Ghz of the 3450 suddenly the $30 difference seems money well spent.

Now, as I like most bang for power, and when I asked the 3570K owner to do an IBT test for me, I was pretty amazed that how damn quickly it went through the test compared to my 2500K while using some watts less. Only difference was that he had the stock 1600MHz rams and I have the stock 1333MHz rams.

So, I was sold. Plus, 3470 equals and surpasses nearly all benchmarks compared to 2500K. Then again, I am not overclocking otherwise all that doesn't matter.

I will take anything that gives the power of 2500K while using less juice (watts).

For example, I love this little G630 and it's power consumption but it's only good damn enough for watching 1080p movies. Gaming?. No way. NEED MORE POWHA!.